Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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FediBlock
#FediBlock disqordia.space for all of the above too
https://rage.love/@puf/108829477530153878
https://akko.disqordia.space/objects/860e8741-3c75-4465-8706-28807c6f9745 (related to above post)
and many more too, just hunt around and find it
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old fediblock for new admin
Spinster markets itself as a feminist instance, but it's a TERF instance; One of the older ones, co-started by Alex Gleason, defederated by so many of us so long ago that I rarely see it brought up any more.
If you're an admin of a new instance, and you value keeping the trans people on your platform safe, #FediBlock spinster.xyz.
Receipt: This is one of their mods. Check the pinned toot. https://spinster.xyz/@Vaishax
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
my favorite UI is just displaying "spinner" and forgetting to put something nice there
re: meta, FediBlock, long 
@RGrunblatt "Jeffrey doesn't mock pronouns in his bio, it's just a joke."
Wow.
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@starfall I haven't been able to determine whether it's malice or just your usual centrist ignorance, but they did not see a fundamental problem with "the trans debate" and frankly that's enough for me to draw a conclusion here about their views on speech.
meta, FediBlock, long
Well, apparently it's time to talk about QOTO again. Sigh. They've now started a "cancel culture"-themed disinformation campaign under the name of "United Federation of Instances" (https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/tree/master).
Their claim, once you poke through all the lofty wording, is essentially that defederation is "out of control" and that's proven by them getting defederated from other instances over the behaviour of a single user that they banned.
Just one problem: that is complete bullshit. They were defederated for many reasons (some receipts attached) that had nothing to do with that users, and everything to do with their moderation policies or rather lack thereof.
A couple of weeks ago, they mass-mailed instances asking them to unblock their instance, with the same sob story. They claim that they did this by the book, "only manually contacting instances with published contact information".
The reality is that their e-mails clearly weren't appreciated by many instance admins (who had blocked them for very good reason), and that they also clearly hadn't looked at the block *reasons* on the instances which blocked them.
They were told all of this, repeatedly, by many different people (including me), through multiple different platforms. Yet they continue to claim in their UFI "proposal" that it was just about that one user, and everything was by the book.
No mention of any of these issues whatsoever. No mention of how they were effectively harassing instance admins who very clearly wanted nothing to do with them. Not even so much as a private apology.
Their "proposal" also includes some very problematic wording that I can only read as politically conservative norms of moderation (and I hopefully don't need to explain why that is bad). Again, receipts attached.
This whole thing reminds me a lot of the Libre Monde misinformation in the Matrix community. That document was likewise very formally written, and managed to convince a lot of people of things that were somewhere between misrepresented and outright false. Several years later, it continues to make the rounds, despite having been debunked over and over again.
We should be extremely careful that something similar doesn't happen here. They seem to be taking a similar "make it look official" approach to spreading misinformation, and there are entirely too many people who will happily believe anything that looks official...
If you didn't have qoto.org blocked yet, this would probably also be a good moment to consider that.
And the rest of the contributor list may also be worth a look: https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md - I don't know whether the non-QOTO folks just bought into misinformation or are deliberately spreading it themselves, but either way something probably needs to be done about that.
And let's all keep an eye on where this goes, please, so that it doesn't become a long-term source of harassment.
@scanlime Sigh. And *of course* stux is in the contributor list...
@scanlime I've had the displeasure of talking to them elsewhere and uhhhh let's just say that they absolutely should not be unblocked
@scanlime Oh and it's also the guy who has been harassing instances that have them blocked for aforementioned abusive behaviour
@scanlime (That guy is the admin)
@scanlime I mean, that *is* the instance that got fediblocked all over the place for assorted abusive and fascist-adjacent behaviour
@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe Not to mention how they have blatantly violated people's consent with their business models not one, not two, but at least *three* separate times
@gmc Seems like Inkscape would be an easier choice for this? It being vector-y stuff and all. There's probably even a ready-made SVG for Mastodon on Wikimedia Commons somewhere.
@halfy Sounds like a scare-quotes "promotion" maybe? More responsibilities without more compensation.
re: meta, CN, venting, undirected harsh language
@ki@chaos.social While I realize that the question at the end is a rhetorical question, I do have an answer: yes, I've unfortunately noticed a significant overlap between anti-maskers and people yelling "censorship" about CNs... :/
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@JeanMarcvanTol Mogelijk is dit een oplossing voor de momenten waar het even niet lukt? https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279041824961297
Echter geen idee of er ook een vergelijkbare Nederlandse tag is.
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Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering.
Billionaires ruin everything they touch.
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soapbox, transphobia, etc
people really need to research who makes the software they are using when deploying it for something like fediverse integration. and if you weren't aware before, you are now
fact: Alex Gleason, the developer of Soapbox, is a massive transphobe who wrote an article titled "Why I don't support transgender ideology" where he says in so many words that he is against transgender people and spends an awful lot of time minimizing all of the suffering trans people are subjected to. it's not hard to find this if you look, right on his blog. i do not care if he claims its about "ideology, not people" - you cannot separate these two
is it any wonder that spinster.xyz, a notable transphobic gender critical instance, uses Soapbox?
do not use soapbox and do not support or give alex gleason the time of day if you care about trans people
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
